United States Second Circuit

In an action arising from a series of well-publicized incidents in which airline passengers endured lengthy delays grounded on New York runways, some without being provided water or food, summary judgment for defendants on plaintiff's complaint seeking declaratory relief against enforcement of New York State's Passenger Bill of Rights is reversed and remanded where substantive portions of the law are preempted by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/25/2008
• Published 03/25/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  WESLEY, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges, and COGAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Seth P. Waxman, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC (Bruce H. Rabinowitz, Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, Heather Zachary, Daniel S. Volchok, Chad Golder, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Robert S. Span, John J. Gallagher, Neal D. Mollen, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General (Andrea Oser, Deputy Solicitor General, Andrew B. Ayers, Assistant Solicitor General, of counsel, Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General of the State of New York, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees., Paul S. Hudson, Sarasota, FL (Burton Jay Rubin, Alexandria, VA, on the brief), for Amici Curiae Aviation Consumer Action Project and Coalition for an Airline Passengers' Bill of Rights in Support of Defendants-Appellees.